by Frank Holmes, reporter
Former President Bill Clinton’s billionaire buddy thought he skated from the law. Last Friday, President Donald Trump’s administration finally said they’d look into taking legal action.
Jeffrey Epstein got the sweetheart deal of a lifetime, but now Republicans are uncovering the scandal—and Bill could end up in prison alongside his friend.
Epstein got a slap on the wrist after he molested dozens of underage girls. The girls didn’t even get to testify against him, thanks to Epstein’s insider connections.
The sexual predator was already out of prison before his victims even knew about the under-the-table deal that his lawyers hammered out… a deal that they say broke federal law.
Epstein is a jet-setting billionaire with a rolodex full of stars and influence peddlers… and an eye for young girls. Bill Clinton was a frequent guest on his private airplane to a secluded “Orgy Island” — critics called the plane the “Lolita Express.”
No later than 2001, Epstein started trafficking young teens to his homes in Palm Beach, the Caribbean, Manhattan, and New Mexico.
He’d have teenagers scout shopping malls for poor girls from broken homes, and promise them they could make hundreds of dollars at a time by just massaging Epstein.
The story was similar to what Harvey Weinstein told his victims—and the abuse was just the same.
Epstein had just one request—the younger, the better.
Eventually, he and a female “sex slave” abused the girls, sometimes so viciously that the girls limped out in pain.
Epstein molested young girls up to three times a day, every day, until a 14-year-old girl went to the police in 2005.
“This was not a ‘he said, she said’ situation,” said the police officer who investigated. “This was 50-something ‘shes’ and one ‘he’ — and the ‘shes’ all basically told the same story.”
That’s when Epstein’s billions started buying off the justice system.
A year later, local investigators had to call in the FBI, because the state attorney’s office seemed to be on the take.
Enter Alexander Acosta, a U.S. attorney appointed by George W. Bush and the current Secretary of Labor.
Acosta used to work in the same law firm as one of Epstein’s top-dollar lawyers, so they inked a non-prosecution plea deal.
Epstein would plead guilty to two counts of “prostitution” and serve 13 months in jail…and he wouldn’t even spend most of the time in jail. Epstein got “work release” for 12 hours a day, six days a week, in an air-conditioned luxury office. Under Florida law, sex offenders aren’t eligible for work release.
Worse yet, Acosta broke a federal law known as the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, which hid the case from Epstein’s 80-plus victims.
Under the law, the kids he abused should have been able to testify against him and demand a steeper sentence.
Instead, Acosta kept the inside deal secret until a judge signed off on it.
The FBI even agreed to “avoid the press” and not discuss the settlement until it was a done deal.
This isn’t a process crime like Roger Stone, or a made-up term like “collusion.”
This is serial child molesting worse than anything that anyone ever accused Brett Kavanaugh of doing—and Bill Clinton could be in it up to his eyeballs.
Another fishy detail is that the agreement gave immunity to “any potential co-conspirators” in the case.
Who were these co-conspirators—these other wealthy and powerful child molesters who got off scot-free?
No one knows. They aren’t named in the document.
But flight records show that Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s private jet, the “Lolita Express,” at least 26 times.
The Boeing 727 reportedly had a bed that Epstein and others would use for group sex while in the air.
Clinton even decided not to take his Secret Service detail on five of those rides.
The Clinton Foundation refuses to comment on it, and the Secret Service had refused to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests that Fox News has filed.
The case stinks, and not just to conservatives.
Even Fake News CNN wondered about this deal. “Why did Epstein get such a cozy deal?” Jake Tapper asked. “Why bend over backwards for a pedophile over the rights of his victims?”
33/ Why did Epstein get such a cozy deal? And even if one disagrees with Judge Marra and sides with then-US Attorney Acosta's office that they didn't HAVE to let the victims know — why DIDN'T they? Why bend over backwards for a pedophile over the rights of his victims?
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 22, 2019
Now the Trump administration is threatening to reopen the case and send Epstein, and possibly Clinton, to jail for a very long time.
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse has asked the Justice Department to investigate the “pathetically soft deal.”
“Jeffrey Epstein is a monster and his victims deserve justice,” Sasse said.
The Trump White House said it’s “looking into” the prosecution.
Critics say he needs to do even more.
“Draining the swamp means dumping Acosta,” said Steve Hilton, host of the Fox News show “The Next Revolution,” on Sunday night.
If the Trump administration finds corruption behind this rotten deal then Acosta, Epstein, and the former president of the United States could end up in the slammer.
Finally.
FLASHBACK: Bill Clinton caught in underage sex scandal
Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”